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"it would be a miserable place to live" Different people, vastly different tastes, dude. Every small town around the world spreads this weird rumor among them
by solve 11y ago
"it would be a miserable place to live"
Different people, vastly different tastes, dude.
Every small town around the world spreads this weird rumor among themselves that cities are so terrible. Apparently caused by the small percentage of people who moved to a city and then later moved back. Great sample to draw on.
What if -- dense cities are extremely packed with millions of people because that's exactly what some people love? Not some convoluted tradeoff that millions of people are being forced to make by living there. What if the answer to why cities are that way is simply because people love it that way?
- a_c_s 11y agoThat's what I thought before moving to NYC. After being here a few years, I've found New Yorkers are rather more provincial than I had expected and many don't have any idea what "not New York" (or at least the tri-state area) is like. At this point I think a majority of people who live in NYC do so because they already live here.
- solve 11y agoMy theory on that is because Manhattan is so great, and the immediate surroundings are relatively so much worse in many ways (opinions vary but it's generally accepted). So, they get the idea that this trend just continues indefinitely, the further away you get the worse it gets.